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General Category => General Homebrew Discussion => Topic started by: tesla_hv on November 07, 2009, 08:24:33 am
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I have six.
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hmmm
I probably have 5 or 6 but most are gathering dust
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2 five gallon glass
2 six gallon Better Bottles
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I have one 6.5 gallon glass carboy, four 5 gallon glass carboys, and a Pyrex 2-1/2 gallon carboy that was given me by a lab.
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(13) new 6.5 gal Italian glass with threaded tops with the caps. (2) six gallon mexican glass. (1) 5 gal.
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I have six 6.5 gallon and 6 5 gallon. I don't use the 5 gallon ones anymore for the most part.
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Hmm...
2 10 gallon corny kegs
4 6/6.5 gallon carboys
4 5 gallon carboys (only used for long, long aged projects - e.g. sours/meads)
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I have 8 carboys-- all 3 gallon Better Bottles. I brew half recipes, can't lift a full glass 5 gallon carboy, and I like a variety of beer around.
Alewife
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4 - 6gal Better Bottles (so far, really liking these)
2 - 6gal glass
4 - 5gal glass
By the end of the day, I hope to have something fermenting in all but 1 of them.
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2 - 6 gal
3 - 5 gal
1 - 3 gal
1 - 6 gal Better Bottle
1 - 3 gal Better Bottle
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3 6.5 gallon ones for primary fermentation when the conical is tied up.
3 6 gallon ones for dry hopping with irrational exuberance.
8 5 gallon carboys for 'normal' dry hopping, aging, ciders and meads.
2 2.5 gallon ones for cider and mead.
I know people with more than that.
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I only got one 5-gallon and one 6-gallon :o
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1 six gallon, 2 five gallon and 2 three gallon. And a bunch of buckets, too.
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I only got one 5-gallon and one 6-gallon :o
It'll probably get worse.
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Just two. But that's enough for me.
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As of now I only have one. I'm thinning them out and making the merge to buckets. (I have a buddy who finishes drywall, so I get them a dime a dozen. ;D)
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Jeez, I don't really know. I have about a dozen each of 1,3,5,6 gallon and if I remember right, 3 6.5 gallon. An 8 gallon stainless conical and a dozen or so buckets.
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I have one. I'm thinkin I got scammed into thinkin I needed it. Buckets work fine and are lighter, safer, and cheaper.
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I have one. I'm thinkin I got scammed into thinkin I needed it. Buckets work fine and are lighter, safer, and cheaper.
They aren't "really" required. I do mostly primary fermentation and use buckets. Now if I am going to a secondary fermentation to clear a beer, I rack to a carboy. Also, If I am doing a lager I do it in glass. Most all of my glass and Better Bottle carboy's are for winemaking.
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I have 5: 2 6.5's, 2 5's, and a 3. All are glass and I wish I would have gotten plastic all along.
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Five 6.5 gallon glass, Six 5 gallon glass, and two 1/2 bbl kegs I've cut the top out and use for my primaries. I generally brew 11 gallon batches unless it's a huge beer.
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Oh yeah, I have 15.5 demi jon, too.
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1 6 gallon
1 5 gallon
1 better bottle
(12) 6 gallon wine buckets (I work next to a brew on premises and get alot of free buckets)
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Let's see...
4 6.5 gallon
4 6 gallon
8 5 gallon
2 3 gallon
10 yrs. brewing, 300+ batches, none fermented in a bucket. :o
Next brewing item to acquire; the 14g Fermenator.
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I never fremented any of my batches in a bucket.... but I probably will.
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1-6.5 gal. glass
1-5 gal. glass
1-5 gal. Better Bottle
3-1 gal. test batch bottles.
Oh yeah, and 5 buckets.
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I've got 3 6 Gal Better Bottles and 2 5 gal glass carboys. I have 3 extra kegs that I transfer to when I need secondary space.
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Just 3 glass 6.5 gallon.
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3 6.5 gallon glass
3 5 gallons glass
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I have 3 5 gallon, one 6.5 gallon, and a moonshining buddy left 2 of his 6.5 gallon carboys in my garage a year ago and hasn't taken them so they may be mine.
Currently I'm using one 6.5 gallon for a our cherry beer and 1 five gallon for a batch of malt vinegar, but the others just collect dust. I prefer buckets with spigots and I also have a conical.
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I only have one carboy. I have six 6 gallon better bottles and two buckets. The carboy has had a cider aging in it for about a year and a half I think. Man I have to bottle that stuff. It was that long ago that Denny told me I have at least a year or two before it is ready. So, no hurry I guess.
Soon I have to get out of the pupa stage of extract brewing and blossom into an AG brewer. Ill be batch sparging soon.
Ill tell ya if it wasnt for my pesky job, I would be brewing a lot more.
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1 - 6.5 gal
3 - 6 gal
4 - 5 gal
1 - 1/4 bbl sankey
2 - 7.5 gal SS Conicals
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2 - 6 gal Better Bottles
2 - 5 gal Better Bottles
2 - 15 gal Water Barrels
I tend to only use the 15 gal barrels now...
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I probably have 12-15, but it's been so long since I used one that I don't recall.
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I have two 10-gallon cornie kegs that I use as primary fermenters and four 5-gallon cornie kegs that I use for bulk aging/cold conditioning/carbonating/serving
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OK, this is a little over the top, but I have an excuse...which is I love this hobby!
In 2005 when the FORD and Ann Arbor Brewers Guild clubs helped me put together a presentation for Baltimore that required 18 carboys to ferment out 18 different yeast strains, Pat Babcock came to me and said that he could "loan" me 8 of his carboys and 9 of his kegs. He said I would be doing him a favor if I could hold on to them for a little while, as their house was having some renovations being done.
Four years later, I guess i have "adopted" these vessels, and they do come in handy during the peak of my brewing season (coming up shortly). So, I have
5 6.5 gallon (2 with Flanders Red in them)
23 5 gallon (2 with a cider and a cyser going right now)
6 3 gallon (5 filled with various meads aging, and 1 with a Flanders Red aging - damn, I need more of these size ones!))
30+ one gallon and half gallon cider jugs and growlers
17 Kegs
Oh, and did I mention the 53 gallon barrel filled with Flanders Red for the last year?
I have a closet in the basement that I converted to house 24 of these carboys. I try to keep my long suffering ale wife from realizing the sheer quantity by making sure at least a half dozen or so are fermenting something at any given time. This past spring I didn't have much ferementing and she began to notice all of these empty carboys laying around in the basement. She started asking me to put these away and didn't I have a closet for these? I sort of "hide" them until I started up the kettles again, but she is now aware of the sheer quantity of glass ware in my fermenting area.
Did I mention that I have broken 5 carboys in my life? Fortunatly, only one small cut and only one had beer in it, the other 4 were during the cleaning process. Slippery little bugers, aren't they? :-*
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5 - 5gal glass
2 - 3 gal glass-Italian ones I bought
3 - 2.8 gal glass- th short squaty ones that 2.5 gals of water comes in
6 - 1 gal cider/apple juice ones
My sister works for a water company so they were free sept for th 3 gal ones, I bought them in '95
or so before she went to work for MV water. Had six 6 gal'ers but had a buddy break one for me.
They are all gathering dust but I think that's gonna change in a month or so.
Matthew
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You WOULD have to ask, you flamin' bastage :D. So I had to go look.
The truth is I wasn't certain. Since I make wine, mead and beer I have collected a bunch.
Fermentation "vessels":
1 27 gal Blichman ferminator.
1 17 gal "sanitized food grade" white plastic trash can w/lid I use for wine.
2 15 gal demijohns
1 7gal minibrew conical
2 6.5 glass
2 6 gal better bottles
12 5 gal glass ( lost another 4 by breakage/ flaws)
9 3 gal glass.
And I do my lagers in corney kegs. I've also collected a few of those as well.
Whew! That was work, I need a beer.
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1 - 14.5 Blichmann Conical
3 - 6.5 gal Better Bottles (had 4, but one broke)
2 - 5.0 gal glass carboys
just sold my last 6.5g glass carboy. keeping the two small guys to secondary big beers, otherwise they'd be gone too.
rarely use anything these days except the conical, though that will change around christmas time - annual RIS and BW/ESB (partigyle) brews, and maybe a BDS...
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1 - 14.5 Blichmann Conical
jealous!!!
I've got 5 carboys, all of them 6 gallons. I'd love to have a big conical for 10 gallon batches. Need to
rig up a temp control setup in the garage.
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if you can do it, woody, I highly recommend it - I love my conical!
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Do you have it in a fridge? I'm worried about keeping it warm enough in the garage during the Maine winter
do you secondary in there or rack to cornies?
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Do you have it in a fridge? I'm worried about keeping it warm enough in the garage during the Maine winter
do you secondary in there or rack to cornies?
yes, I have it in a stand up chest freezer. I don't have a problem with it being warm enough ;)
I don't really secondary anything anymore - I do a 2-3 week primary for ales, 3-4 for lagers and then crash and rack to cornies. with the racking arm is really easy to rack without getting a lot of sediment - I've been amazed how little is left in the kegs vs. when I used to rack from carboys.
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whats the ambient temp where you have it located during the winter?
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whats the ambient temp where you have it located during the winter?
this is no such thing as 'winter' here. ;)
I live in Jupiter, Florida - in January, its usually between 65-75df, occasionally, we'll have a drop into the 40s or 50s, but it usually doesn't last long enough to drop the temperature inside my garage.
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Ha I can see why you don't have that problem then
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I have a closet in the basement that I converted to house 24 of these carboys.
Crispy, I gotta ask.. how the hell do you store 24 carboys in any reasonable space and keep them relatively protected?
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I have:
Two 6-gallon glass carboys
One 5-gallon glass carboy
Two 7.9-gallon buckets
One converted Sanke keg fermenter
Eight corny kegs
I seldom use the carboys anymore. I've started skipping the secondary for most ales, and just cold crash, and keg after a longer primary. For lagers, I rack to a corny for secondary and lagering.
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I have only one MiniBrew Plastic Conical fermenter.
(http://www.monsterbrew.com/site/ProductImages/MiniBrewConicalFermenter6.52.jpg)
I brew every other week and fermenter is ALWAYS in use.
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Two 6-7 gallon glass
Two 6.5 gallon better bottles
Four 5 gallons glass
One 3 gallon glass
Two 2.5 gallon glass
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(1) 15gal Minibrew Conical
(4) 6gal Better Bottles
(3) 6.5gal Glass Carboys
(2) 5gal Glass Carboys
(10) Corny Kegs
...and a partridge in a pear tree...
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I have no carboys whatsoever. I got rid of them all after a pretty bad cut (3 years and the index finger still doesn't work quite right. I currently use a used 15 gallon HDPE barrel that my old lhbs received bulk extract in, a sabco yeast brink, and the occasional 6 or 7 gallon fermentation bucket. Most batches are 12 gallon in the hdpe barrel.
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4- 6.5 gal
6- 5 gal
1-12.5 B3 temp controlled conical
24- cornies
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2 - 6.5 gal
3 - 6 gal
2 - 5 gal (that I never use)
And all of them are empty as of tonight, when I kegged an alt. Time to brew!
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Do you have it in a fridge?
yes, I have it in a stand up chest freezer. I don't have a problem with it being warm enough ;)
That would be the downside of the 27 gal. It's a bit hard to move around when full.
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Do you have it in a fridge?
yes, I have it in a stand up chest freezer. I don't have a problem with it being warm enough ;)
That would be the downside of the 27 gal. It's a bit hard to move around when full.
yeah, I have mine attached to a cart w/ casters that I built cause I wasn't gonna pay $100+ for the Blichmann ones. Just fill at the kettle, roll to the chest freezer, bend at the knees and drive the legs!
my buddy has a few of the 27s and he just has the conical inside the fridge (old soda vending fridge) and pumps the beer about 15ft across his shed from the kettle - seems to work well enough too.
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10 6.5 GAL glass
1 6 GAL Better Bottle
1 5 GAL glass
1 3 GAL glass
1 2.5 GAL glass
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my buddy has a few of the 27s and he just has the conical inside the fridge (old soda vending fridge) and pumps the beer about 15ft across his shed from the kettle - seems to work well enough too.
I was also thinking about transfer tubing from my BK (in the kitchen) to the fermentation fridge in the basement.
I would not have to have pump to do this.
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After a series of infections in my glass carboy (yeah, I cleaned and sanitized...over an over), I switched to some buckets because they were so cheap. I prefer them now because they are cheaper, safer, and easier to carry. I do miss watching fermentation and I really liked the idea that all my beer was in contact was glass with carboys, but I'm doing buckets for now. I got 3 of em.
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Let see, going off memory I can think of:
3x 6.5-gallon
1x 6 gallon
5-6x 5-gallon (I think most of you can guess what these are filled with)
And a handful of buckets and lots of kegs.
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I have four 5 gallon, one 6 gallon, a couple buckets, and five one gallon jugs (ciders/meads/cyser/starters/etc).
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I have a 6 gallon and two 5 gallon better bottles ( which I rarely use anymore ). I also still have my very first 7.5 gallon bucket for sentimental ( or just plain mental ) reasons.
I will probably pick up a couple more 6 gallon BB. Glass just scares the heck out of me ( not Gary Glass....although :) )
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I have 2 6.5 Gallon, 1 six gallon, and 1 five gallon carboy. I also have 2 fermentation buckets that get used on occasion.
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I have a five gallon glass, 6 gallon BB and a three gallon BB. I use them rarely, the 6 gallon for fermenting lagers mostly.
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IIRC:
6 - 5 gallon
3 - 6 gallon
2 - 3 gallon
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3 - 6 gallon buckets
3 - 5 gallon kegs
1 - 3 gallon keg
I sold all of my glass about a year ago and will never go back.
I had a dream that I was given a Blichmann conical a few days ago. :)
I live in a tiny apartment in Brooklyn, so this will never become a reality as long as I live here. :(
Just out of curiosity, do all of you guys with larger conicals keep them in standup freezers? Do they not make some sort of glycol-jacketed sleeve that you could put on the conical and connect to a freezer?
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Four 6.5 Gallon Carboys.
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I have 2-5 gallon, 4-6.5 gallon, 6-6 gallon, and a bunch of 1 gallon and growlers. I use the carboys for wines and cysers. For beer I use buckets, sometimes with a big beer I will use a carboy for bulk aging.
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Two 6 gallon carboys
Two 5 gallon carboys
Two 6.5 gallon buckets
6 cornys
If I had to do it all over again I'd have zero carboys, a bunch of buckets, and tons of cornys. Carboys take up too much of my limited space when they're not in use.
OR
I'd have a dedicated brew house with unlimited space. :P
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(http://thechive.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/these-people-exist-part3-16.jpg)
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6-six gallon, 6-five gallon, 1-six and a half, 2 buckets.
Some times it's too many, some times it's not enough.
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I own two 6.5 gallon carboys and five five gallon. I was planning on reducing the five gallons because I was not using them. I then increased my brewing capacity to eight gallons and now use two five gallons to primary. Works great. :)
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I own two 6.5 gallon carboys and five five gallon. I was planning on reducing the five gallons because I was not using them. I then increased my brewing capacity to eight gallons and now use two five gallons to primary. Works great. :)
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(1) 6..5 gal. glass
(2) 5 gal. glass
(1) 5 gal. better bottle
(2) 6 gal. better bottle
will be buying more 6 gallon better bottles.
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5 - 5 gallon
3 - 6 gallon
2 - 3 gallon better bottles
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I have (4) Mexi 6 Gallons. I also have 2 buckets. I like glass-maybe the misconception that it is easier to clean?
'Cause it is NOT. I spent a long time getting dried krausen off the dome from a wild ferment.
I am not going to buy anymore for now as I would rather get 6-8 cornies and free myself from bottling and carbination headaches.
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I just started brewing about a year ago so I only have a bucket.
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5
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Right now I have 5 six galloncarboys (had six, broke one last new years eve due to an alcohol induced carboy moving accident - no one was hurt but some tears were shed), 2 five gallon carboys and 2 working buckets. Lots of junk buckets. And, yes, there are times when every one of them is full. :)
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Right now I have 5 six galloncarboys (had six, broke one last new years eve due to an alcohol induced carboy moving accident - no one was hurt but some tears were shed), 2 five gallon carboys and 2 working buckets. Lots of junk buckets. And, yes, there are times when every one of them is full. :)
...And, yes, there are times when every one of them is full. :)
That is the key, how many are actually in use at any given time? Well, I am filling a couple today.... :)
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2 - 6.5 gallon glass
2 - 5.5 gallon glass
3 - 5 gallon glass
4 -6 gallon Better bottle
15 Cornys
4 specially designed rigs to ferment in the keg - 2 spunding valve assy's and 2 blow off hose rigs
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One 6 gal better bottle
one 6.5 gal carboy
three 5 gal carboys
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8 6-gallon glass carboys
5 5-gallon glass carboys
3 3-gallon glass carboys
2 8-gallon plastic bucket fermenters
3 7-gallon plastic bucket fermenters
3 6.5-gallon plastic bucket fermenters
7 corny kegs
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1- 6.5 gallon glass
2- 6 gallon glass
2- 5 gallon glass
1- 3 gallon glass
21 corny kegs
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2 buckets (well, two I use for fermenting, anyway)
1 6.5 gal glass
2 5 gal glass
2 5 gal better bottles
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2 6.5 gallon
2 6 gallon
5 5 gallon
3 3 gallon
20 cornies
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4 - 6.5 gal glass
11 - 5 gal glass
1 - 5 gal oak barrel
12 - 5 gal cornies
1 - 3 gal glass
1 - 2.5 gal glass
3 - 1 gal glass jugs (great for small batches of mead)
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I have two 5-gal glass carboys, and two 3-gal better bottles. I used to have two 6-gal better bottles, but both cracked along the bottom, coincidentally within a week of each other.
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2 - 6.5 gallon and 4 - 5 gallon glass. soon to more 6.5 and hopefully the budget will allow a SS conical soon.